Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flighty

Flighty , adjective

1.
Fleeting; swift; transient.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. — Shakespeare
2.
Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slightly delirious.
Proofs of my flighty and paradoxical turn of mind. — Coleridge
A harsh disciplinarian and a flighty enthusiast. — J. S. Harford